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Title: Spoon River Anthology

Author: Edgar Lee Masters

Posting Date: January 27, 2010 [EBook #1280] Release Date: April, 1998

Language: English

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Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters

Contents:

  Armstrong, Hannah
  Arnett, Harold
  Atherton, Lucius

  Ballard, John
  Barker, Amanda
  Barrett, Pauline
  Bartlett, Ezra
  Bateson, Marie
  Beatty, Tom
  Beethoven, Isaiah
  Bennett, Hon. Henry
  Bindle, Nicholas
  Blind Jack
  Bliss, Mrs. Charles
  Blood, A. D.
  Bloyd, Wendell P.
  Bone, Richard
  Branson, Caroline
  Brown, Jim
  Brown, Sarah
  Browning, Elijah
  Burleson, John Horace
  Butler, Roy

  Cabanis, Flossie
  Calhoun, Granville
  Calhoun, Henry C.
  Campbell, Calvin
  Carman, Eugene
  Cheney, Columbus
  Childers, Elizabeth
  Church, John M.
  Churchill, Alfonso
  Circuit Judge, The
  Clapp, Homer
  Clark, Nellie
  Clute, Aner
  Compton, Seth Conant, Edith
  Culbertson, E. C.

  Davidson, Robert
  Dement, Silas
  Dixon, Joseph
  Drummer, Frank
  Drummer, Hare
  Dunlap, Enoch
  Dye, Shack

Ehrenhardt, Imanuel

  Fallas, State's Attorney
  Fawcett, Clarence
  Fluke, Willard
  Foote, Searcy
  Ford, Webster
  Fraser, Benjamin
  Fraser, Daisy
  French, Charlie
  Frickey, Ida

  Garber, James
  Gardner, Samuel
  Garrick, Amelia
  Godbey, Jacob
  Goldman, Le Roy
  Goode, William
  Goodpasture, Jacob
  Graham, Magrady
  Gray, George
  Green, Ami
  Greene, Hamilton
  Griffy the Cooper
  Gustine, Dorcas

  Hainsfeather, Barney
  Hamblin, Carl
  Hatfield, Aaron
  Hawkins, Elliott
  Hawley, Jeduthan
  Henry, Chase
  Herndon, William H.
  Heston, Roger
  Higbie, Archibald
  Hill, Doc
  Hill, The
  Hoheimer, Knowlt
  Holden, Barry
  Hookey, Sam
  Howard, Jefferson
  Hueffer, Cassius
  Hummel, Oscar
  Humphrey, Lydia
  Hutchins, Lambert
  Hyde, Ernest

  James, Godwin
  Jones, Fiddler
  Jones, Franklin
  Jones, "Indignation"
  Jones, Minerva
  Jones, William

  Karr, Elmer
  Keene, Jonas
  Kessler, Bert
  Kessler, Mrs.
  Killion, Captain Orlando
  Kincaid, Russell
  King, Lyman
  Knapp, Nancy
  Konovaloff, Ippolit
  Kritt, Dow

Layton, Henry

  M'Cumber, Daniel
  McDowell, Rutherford
  McFarlane, Widow
  McGee, Fletcher
  McGee, Ollie
  M'Grew, Jennie
  M'Grew, Mickey
  McGuire, Jack
  McNeely, Mary
  McNeely, Washington
  Malloy, Father
  Many Soldiers
  Marsh, Zilpha
  Marshall, Herbert
  Mason, Serepta
  Matheny, Faith
  Matlock, Davis
  Matlock, Lucinda
  Melveny, Abel
  Merritt, Mrs.
  Merritt, Tom
  Metcalf, Willie
  Meyers, Doctor
  Meyers, Mrs.
  Micure, Hamlet
  Miles, I. Milton
  Miller, Julia
  Miner, Georgine Sand
  Moir, Alfred

Newcomer, Professor

  Osborne, Mabel
  Otis, John Hancock

  Pantier, Benjamin
  Pantier, Mrs. Benjamin
  Pantier, Reuben
  Peet, Rev. Abner
  Pennington, Willie
  Penniwit, the Artist
  Petit, the Poet
  Phipps, Henry
  Poague, Peleg
  Pollard, Edmund
  Potter, Cooney
  Puckett, Lydia
  Purkapile, Mrs.
  Purkapile, Roscoe
  Putt, Hod

  Reece, Mrs. George
  Rhodes, Ralph
  Rhodes, Thomas
  Richter, Gustav
  Robbins, Hortense
  Roberts, Rosie
  Ross, Thomas, Ir.
  Russian Sonia
  Rutledge, Anne

  Sayre, Johnnie
  Scates, Hiram
  Schirding, Albert
  Schmidt, Felix
  Scott, Julian
  Sewall, Harlan
  Sharp, Percival
  Shaw, "Ace"
  Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Shope, Tennessee Claflin
  Sibley, Amos
  Sibley, Mrs.
  Simmons, Walter
  Sissman, Dillard
  Slack, Margaret Fuller
  Smith, Louise
  Somers, Jonathan Swift
  Somers, Judge
  Sparks, Emily
  Spooniad, The
  Standard, W. Lloyd Garrison
  Stewart, Lillian

  Tanner, Robert Fulton
  Taylor, Deacon
  Theodore the Poet
  Throckmorton, Alexander
  Tompkins, Josiah
  Town Marshal, The
  Trainor, the Druggist
  Trevelyan, Thomas
  Trimble, George
  Tripp, Henry
  Tubbs, Hildrup
  Turner, Francis
  Tutt, Oaks

Unknown, The

Village Atheist, The

  Wasson, John
  Weirauch, Adam
  Weldy, "Butch"
  Wertman, Elsa
  Whedon, Editor
  Whitney, Harmon
  Wiley, Rev. Lemuel
  Will, Arlo
  William and Emily
  Williams, Dora
  Williams, Mrs.
  Wilmans, Harry
  Witt, Zenas

Yee Bow

Zoll, Perry

The Hill

  Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
  The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter?
  All, all are sleeping on the hill.

  One passed in a fever,
  One was burned in a mine,
  One was killed in a brawl,
  One died in a jail,
  One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife—
  All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

  Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,
  The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?—
  All, all are sleeping on the hill.

  One died in shameful child-birth,
  One of a thwarted love,
  One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,
  One of a broken pride, in the search for heart's desire;
  One after life in far-away London and Paris
  Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag—
  All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

  Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,
  And